Lol calling China Leftist isn't quite the thing. They are technically "communist" but no more so than the National Socialist German Workers' Party was socialist.

Alternative headline:

China's authoritarian leader Xi Jinping reiterates intent to subjugate neighboring country Taiwan in New Year's Eve speech.

Yes, it is imperialism. Also, China has an authoritarian state controlled by a privileged ruling class and is therefore far-right.

China hasn't exerted any political authority over Taiwan in 80 years and Taiwan declared itself a separate nation long ago, supported by the will of the people of Taiwan. Anything else is the will of a conqueror.

China is only nominally left; they're deeply conservative, and don't exactly empower the people. They are imperialist, as was the USSR.

And Taiwan did democratically decide what they want. It would be better if China also got to democratically decide what they want.

Invading Taiwan without damaging the things that make it valuable seems tough.

Xi Jinping is an evil scumbag whose goal is to destabilize the world. China needs and deserves Taiwan just as little as Russia needs Crimea.

Taiwan's sovereign status should be ratified in UN asap.

China, a country which is supposed to be left-wing

Uhh, citation needed? Communism by name only does not a left wing country make

Isn't it just such a fucking coincidence you have all these assholes coming to the same conclusions at the same time?

Putin invaded Ukraine and would love to Hitler his way across Europe in the name of "unity."

Trump invades Venezuela, yet pretends to be an antiwar isolationist only taking necessary action to protect the U.S. from the flow of fentanyl (which has never been coming from Venezuela, but why let facts get in the way of a shitty narrative).

Now China will invade Taiwan and the U.S. will refuse to get involved because Trump is totally an "isolationist." (At least when it comes to other continents).

Yep. Totally a coincidence and not a shared strategy for a global fascist takeover by a new axis of evil.

One sentence that fell during the Merkel phone spying affair:

Countries don't have friends, they only have interests.

Don't think of countries as people; people have morals and one direction they go. This to some of the comments here.

West Taiwan: baby let's get back together!

Taiwan: no! you were an asshole to me!

West Taiwan: I wasn't asking.

Taiwan: this is what I'm fucking talking about!

For the first time ever in my life, I see someone claiming that China is left-wing. Left and authoritarian are usually at the opposite spectrums.

I hope the EU and nations in the Asian sphere decide to have a military alliance. Taiwan is pretty dang valuable, and also shouldn't be bullied for the sake of some strongman's wet dream.

Now is the perfect time for them to do it, I can see why! America may not even respond.

Yes, I know we are an ally and we're supposed to immediately go to war. So what? We promised to defend Ukraine from Russia, too. Look what happened.

it really sucks for the 90%+ of Taiwanese people who don't want to become part of China

WW3 all the imperialists are acting at once

Pretty sure tawain ain't interested in being absorbed back by China.

There is an expression in science that needs to be used more in polysci 'all models are wrong" The right wing vs left wing political spectrum is a model of political ideologies and a very simplistic one at that. It is also used interchangeably for fundamentally different political tenants. Large government-small government, authoritarian - libertarian, capitalist - socialist. Models are only as good as their ability to predict reality and they are always wrong, they are just simplified models of reality. The moment you are confused saying "but if this country is X-wing, why are they Y" You are either misunderstanding the model, misapplying the model, or are misunderstanding the actual value of a model.

Well Russia was allowed to try imperialism, China can't resist being upstaged.

This is a declaration of war IMO. By one old dude against the whole world order (the international laws).

Taiwan is too strategically important to the United States and Taiwan two difficult an invasion target for this to happen.

It's just political posturing.

Does this mean Lai Ching-te is gonna to be the president of One China?

Leftists are normally anti-imperialism

You've apparently never spoken to a Marxist-Leninist though some would argue they are not Leftists.

IMO china is making a mistake here. there's one way to poison yourself and that is to eat something that does not want to be eaten. and the same is the case here. china is a successful country and they could just call that a win and leave it at that. instead, they (think they) have to swallow taiwan, and they will poison themselves. they will get a lot of people into their country that do not want to become a part of china, and they will seek to destroy china from the inside, which is much easier to do than from the outside, and this could become a real danger to china. china should not seek to conquer taiwan against the will of its people.